Realizarea de noi conexiuni cu tehnologiile digitale: înspre un nou model de dezvoltare compozițională în muzică
Making new connections with digital technologies: towards a new model of compositional development in music

Summary/Abstract: Digital technologies have brought significant changes to music classrooms, providing support and offering new opportunities to foster compositional development. Yet, current applications of digital technologies in school suggest that the pedagogies underpinning the use of digital technologies in school frequently do not realise much of their potential. This limitation is also highlighted by the lack of understanding in current literature about the ways in which digital technologies mediate and transform musical development. In this paper a new model of compositional development is presented that attends to the importance of the social and cultural context when composing. Case studies of two UK music students aged between 14 and 16 were carried out over a twelve-month period. For each student, changes in their composing processes were explored through systematic mapping of both the nature and their use of composing strategies. The identification of critical composing incidents provided a standpoint from which we scrutinized rich data generated from participant observations, video observations, MIDI recordings, semi-structured interviews, documents and computer files. The new model described development in terms of movement within and between four conceptual spaces: scaffolded development, serendipitous development, computer-mediated development, and creative development. In these spaces different types of development are made possible as the context is more or less open, dynamic, enabled or collaborative.

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